Monthly Archives: February 2013

Salena: What’s Next?

Twenty one year old Salena bounds into the interview room and plops down on the sofa. Unlike some of her other Caroline Center colleagues who I have interviewed, Salena is neither shy nor nervous. She is, as the Lou Grant … Continue reading

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Jessica: A Sense of Family

Jessica stared into space as she contemplated the question. “I guess you could say… I live with perfect strangers,” she concluded, as if she’d never really thought about it. Or never really had to explain, at any rate. And of … Continue reading

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Connecting the Dots

 “Don’t ride motorcycles.”  That was the advice 72-year-old Sister Dottie gave the women in her Caroline Center anatomy class. She spent 27 years riding motorcycles while working as a missionary and physician’s assistant in the mountains of rural Bolivia. While … Continue reading

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